# repeto
## Latin
### Etymology

From re- +‎ petō.

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈre.pe.toː/, [ˈrɛpɛt̪oː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈre.pe.to/, [ˈrɛːpet̪o]

### Verb

repetō (present infinitive repetere, perfect active repetīvī or repetiī, supine repetītum); third conjugation
* to attack again; to go back to
** 20 BCE – 14 BCE, Horace, Epistles 1.7:Macra cavum repetes artum quem macra subistiThin, you will return to the narrow cave that you entered thin
* to recommence, resume, renew or repeat an action
** 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 4.948:tunc repetam, nunc mē grandius urget opusThen, I will resume [that theme]; now, much greater work impels me. (Ovid concludes Book Four, having briefly introduced Flora (mythology) and her festival, which the poet will feature in Book Five.)
* to recount, to recall, to recollect
* to demand, claim, reclaim
    Synonyms: requīrō, rogō, exigō, precor, petō, efflagitō, rogitō, flagitō, exōrō, expetō
    res repetere ― to demand the redress/ to seek redress
** Ab Urbe Condita, Titus Livius, I, 32 :hoc tum modo [...] repetitae resThen in this manner the redress having been sought
    Synonym: peto

#### Conjugation

$^1$At least one rare poetic syncopated perfect form is attested.

#### Derived terms

* repetītiō
* repetunda

#### Descendants

* Old French: repeïr (hapax)
* Neapolitan: arəpətá (Abruzzo)
* Sicilian: arripitari
* → Asturian: repetir
* → Catalan: repetir
* → Danish: repetere
* → Dutch: repeteren
* → Esperanto: ripeti
* → Galician: repetir
* → German: repetieren
* → Hungarian: repetál
* → Ido: repetar
* → Interlingua: repeter
* → Italian: ripetere
** → Friulian: ripeti
* → Norwegian: repetere
* → Occitan: repetir
* → Old French: repeter
** Middle French: repeter
*** French: répéter
*** → Middle English: repeten
**** English: repeat
** Norman: èrpéter (Jersey), répetar (Guernsey)
* → Polish: repetować
* → Portuguese: repetir
* → Romanian: repeta
* → Romansch: repeter
* → Sardinian: repetire
* → Sicilian: ripètiri
* → Spanish: repetir
** Papiamentu: ripití
* → Swedish: repetera

### References

* “repeto”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* repeto in Enrico Olivetti, editor (2003-2025), Dizionario Latino, Olivetti Media Communication
* “repeto”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* repeto in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co. to demand restitution, satisfaction: res repetere to recall to mind a thing or person: memoriam alicuius rei repetere to borrow instances from history: exempla petere, repetere a rerum gestarum memoria or historiarum (annalium, rerum gestarum) monumentis to quote Socrates as a model of virtue: a Socrate exemplum virtutis petere, repetere to go back to the remote ages: repetere ab ultima (extrema, prisca) antiquitate (vetustate), ab heroicis temporibus to go a long way back (in narrative): longe, alte (longius, altius) repetere (either absolute or ab aliqua re) to derive a word from... (used of an etymologist): originem verbi repetere a... to revenge oneself on another for a thing or on some one's behalf: poenas alicuius or alicuius rei repetere ab aliquo to exact a penalty from some one: poenam petere, repetere ab aliquo to demand satisfaction, restitution: res repetere (ab aliquo) (Off. 1. 11. 36)
* Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “repetere”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 10: R, page 266